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Violence erupts in Haiti

     Violence has irrupted in Haiti at the funeral of 24 illegal migrants found dead in the Dominican Republic.  Police and UN peacekeepers clashed with protestors as they tried to cross the border leaving at least one dead.  The bodies of he 24 Haitians had to be taken back into the Dominican Republic and buried in a common grave.  Protestors were demanding an inquiry into the deaths of the migrants who the Dominicans say suffocted in the back of a smugglers lorry.  Some survivors said however tht the truck had been fired at from a vehicle.  The Dominican Republic have arrested at least 20 people over the incident.  Some reports say that there are military officers among those detained.  The protests come as the number of Haitian migrants dead rose to 25 after a survivor died in hospital

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